For the first time in its 35-year history, The Tenement Museum in New York City is sharing the story of a Black family with its new exhibit, “A Union of Hope: 1869”. “A Union of Hope” will be the only ...
Visitors can explore the Black migrant experience in post-Civil War era New York City through a 75-minute guided, multimedia tour. Calling all museum-goers! On Feb. 1, the Tenement Museum in Lower ...
A Russian fortune teller, a German saloon owner, and an Irish family of ten are just a few former residents of 97 Orchard Street. Built in 1863, the Orchard Street tenement was home to generations of ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. After reopening its National Historic Landmark tenement at 97 Orchard ...
In New York City, rapid growth and the imposition of the New York City street grid both played major roles in the look, density, and availability of housing for New Yorkers. Tenements originated from ...
Since its founding in 1988, the Tenement Museum’s walking tours of the Lower East Side have told the stories of the European, Chinese, and Puerto Rican families who made their homes in the ...
Silverrock Development has filed plans to build a luxury apartment building at 2262 Frederick Douglass Boulevard in South Harlem. Photo via Google Street View According to a permit application with ...
(Housing projects and tenements surround the $6 billion Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 planned route (MTA Capital Division)) Plans are advancing rapidly for the 1.5 mile Second Avenue (Q) Subway from ...
There is no equality of suffering on this earth. Which was worse -- wiped out by starvation along with your family in Ireland, massacred and worked to death during the Holocaust, driven off the face ...